Publisher, Simon & Schuster (October 2006)

From 1939-1946 Americans gathered around their radio to listen to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- featuring Basil Rathbone as the high-strung crime solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson.

Witty, fast-paced and always surprising, these great radio plays, written by the prolific writing team of Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, are as fresh today as they were then.

The latest audio technology was employed to bring the best audio quality and fidelity to the original performances, which feature nostalgic wartime announcements, original commercials and radio narrations.

This special CD edition includes:

* The Book of Tobit and Murder Beyond the Mountains

* The Manor House Case and The Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost

* The Great Gandolfo and The Adventure of the Original Hamlet

* Murder by Moonlight and The Singular Affair of the Coptic Compass

* The Gunpowder Plot and The Babbling Butler

* The Accidental Murderess and The Adventure of the Blarney Stone

About the Performers: When Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were chosen to play Holmes and Watson in the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles, no one realized that they would be forever linked with the characters of the great detective and his loyal friend. The immediate success of the film led to their being chosen to portray Holmes and Watson on the radio for 8 years in 213 episodes of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

The radio shows are based on the original Sherlock Holmes stories and characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and are used with the kind permission of Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Produced by Ken Greenwald, Richard Mullins and John Tefteller.